[Aurion? Kratos sees Lloyd mouth out of the corner of his eye; but Yuan's movement captures the rest of his attention. Lloyd exclaims at the speed of the strike, but Kratos is already reading Yuan's intent.

[This foe is too much for the group at this level of training -- Lloyd's only had to deal with woodland monsters, not angels. Not this.

[But Yuan's here for him, for Kratos, not for Lloyd or Colette, so--

[Kratos steps into that opening, slow by Yuan's standards, fast by Kratos's new state of being, faster than the others; it's enough to angle a blow, feet testing the sand as he goes.]